The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-14
STABBED ON THE STREET.
A WASHINGTON LAWYER MEETS
A TRAGIC DEATH.

A White Laborer Steals Up Behind
Him and Plunges a Knife Blade Up
to the Hit into His Side, and then
Gives it Jerk Sideways-The Muir
derer Under Arrest.
WASHINGTON, July 13.-The most sensa-
tlonal murder that has occurred in Wash
lngton since the assassination of President
Garfield was committed about o'clock this
evening on the corner OF Fifteenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue, opposite the
northeastern end of the Treasury Depart
ment building. Joseph G. G. Kennedy, an
attorney and real estate agent, one of
the Oldest residents of Washington, and a
personal acquaintance of many of the most
prominent people of the national capital,
was murdered in cold blood and apparently
without provocatiOn by John Daily, "a white
laborer. A few minutes before 5 o'clock
Mr.. Kennedy left his office, just above
Riggs bank, and crossed the street dag
onally to the opposite corner, where he
mailed several letters. He then started to
take a car of the Fourteenth street railroad.
STABBED IN THE SIDE.
When he was within a few feet of the car
Daily, who had been lettering around the
corner for several hours, walked up behind
him and drawing a large keen-hladed knife,
similar to those used by butchers in killing
hogs, ran it into Mr.. Kennedys right side,
near the abdomen, with vicious lunge, and
then gave it jerk sidewise. A large crowd
was on the corner at the time, including
many clerks in the government de-
partments, but they were all so
horror-stricken that for a moment
nobody moved. Mr.. Kennedy fell to the
ground! and after giving one cry of
Murder" groaned deeply and pointed to
his murderer, who made no attempt to es-
cape AT this moment Henry Mason, a
colored watchman in the safe deposit
building on the opposite corner, hearing the
cry ran out and supported the wounded
man as best he could. The knife dropped
out of Kennedy's side at this instant and
Mason resigned the care of the murdered
man to a physician who had come up.
THE MURDERER SEIZED.
Mason then seized Daily, who had stood
looking on apparently the most unconcerned
and self-possessed man in the crowd, which
had until now held aloof as if afraid to ap-
proach the murderer Mr.. Kennedy ex-
pired in about five minutes, and his body
was removed to police station, where an
inquest will be held tomorrow morning
The excitement rose rapidly and the crowd
grew boisterous, threatening to hang the
murderer.
Daily paid but little attention to them
and refused to say why he committed the
crime. Once, when provoked by the crowd,
he turned tiercely around and said, Eyes,
killed him, damn him." The indignation
of the people became so great that Police
man Salkeld, who had taken charge of the
murderer, removed him to a drug store on
the corner where he was kept until patrol
wagon came and carried him to the station
house.
THE MURDERER'S STORY.
He is a man about 50 years of age and ap-
parently is a working man. At the station
house he told a rambling and incoherent
story about the affair, of which the general
purport was that Kennedy had wronged his
father years ago and had secured property
worth "a 600 for 5000, and that he refused to
make restitution. The murdered man was
about rs years of age of an old Maryland
family, and one of the most respected citi-
zens of Washington. He was a grandson of
Ellicott, who, at the request of President
Washington, surveyed ten miles square,
which was Incorporated as the Dis
trict of Columbia. In 1850 and
1860 Mr.. Kennedy was commissioner of cen
sus. He was prominent politician in the
earlier days and an ardent adherent Of the
old Wing party. At one time he edited the
unmarried daughter, Miss Sallie Kennedy,
and a son, Joseph Kennedy, and one mar
ried daughter, who is the wife of Gen. Bid
die, a wealthy Californian. Mr.. Kennedy
was man of considerable property